Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-05-17

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turned the Key ID tnF uoUf. llglFas
at Ii O'Clock at night, and Harvey
had been dead eight hours. The TWEEN
ty-four hours would not expire until
three O'Clock in the afternoon OF the
next day.
1--WE did not 90 near the room I'M
til half an hour before the expected |
time, and the moment we looked on !
the dead man S face we realized that |
reaction had set in. The pallor was |
disappearing, color WAS returning to |
the lips. and there was a moisture |
which felt warm to the touch. We !
drew UP our chairs without a word, |
and paid the keenest attention to
what was TO outrival any experience
in any doctors career. AT quarter
to 3 there was fiutter of the eyelids.
and put my hand on his heart and
could detect Il faint pulsation. The
color continued to come to his face,
signs of life were multiplied each mo-
ment, and at five minutes to- Harvey
! opened his eyes and looked full at us.
We saw at once that ne was conscious
and in possession of all his senses,
and | bent over him and whispered:
died in prison, were buried by the
officials, and we dug you up and
brought you here. 1t is just twenty
/ four hours. Remain quiet until your
strength returns.
| 81 fed him wine and food, and five
! minutes later he dropped off into a
natural ana healthy sleep, which last
ed four hours. When he awoke he was
ready to sit up and to talk. and, after
eating and drinking very heartily, he
was able to walk across the room.
When asked for his experience he re-
piled:
The only way I can describe It ID
to say that Iiay down on my back
on the hocr, held my breath, closed
my eyes, and gradually became un-
conscious. 1t was perhaps ten min
utes before / lost my senses. 1t was
like falling asleep, only it seemed as il
was melting away to nothing. |
kept repeating to myself, "You must
awake at 3 O'Clock tomorrow" ana
that was the very last thing | can
remember. My coming back to life
was like awakening from sleep. but
feel weak and tremble as if l had just
got up from a fit of Sickness
"Well, Harvey was out of prison,
and | had such facts and points on
the subject of suspended animation
as would make the public believe me
a liar and fraud If wrote the sol
emn truth. After two or three days
when / asked what he proposed to dc
in The future. he sat and reflected, and
then answered:
"'Bring me a razor, some court
plaster and baEdages. and | will an
swer your question before the week is
out
"'What DO you intend?'
"'Trust me and ask no questions.
"That night, when | went to carry
him his supper, | found Harvey look
ing as ii he had been fighting due
, with knives, and his face was so GOV
cred with strips OF court plaster tina
, he was q ludicrous sight. What hat
5 he done? Well. it is worth relating
for he exhibited wonderful nerve ant
skill. He had nose with yer,
8 large end. By the use OF the razor h
made an altogether different nasal or
: gan of it. He had u fat chm; h
t made dimple in It. His mouth wa
/, naturally large. By making
) cut at one corner. which would leav
/, a scar, he changed the contour OF ii
\ He had heavy eyebrows. These h
Il trimmed down and shaped in a ne'
i way. Two weeks later, when he wa
d ready to 90 out into the world as vii
lam Redtord. no man could hav
,, identified him as James Harvey. Ii
e was a machinist by trade, and h
3 went from our room to shop in TIN
> city and secured work, and for ove
twenty years he wos a resident OF tn
place AS William Redford he marie
D. there, came to have at half interest i
It the shop, and for six years was a
}. Alderman. / have spent many n
, hour in his house, and have trotta
n two OF his children on my knee.
l. WAS he ever suspected? No, bu
the convict Saunders, whose tin
soon expired, told how Harvey ha
J. been buried alive. and the story crea
= ed so much feeling that the grave wa
e. opened. They found the body gon
d but the theory was that 1t had bee
stolen for some medical college. ! ws
Y the doctor called to attend Re,lford
Vt his last illness, which straugel
Sc enough, was typhoid lever, and nc
a haitian hour before lie died he wiispe
ed to me with a smile on his face:
e, ait will be for good this time, do
re tor
It "And so it vas"